There definitely exists a tension between academic
teaching and aesthetic experience because of the
constrained nature of the academic process, where
we are restricted to a prescribed course which leaves
no room for aesthetic experiences. This, of course, depends
more on the teacher than on anything else. The teacher
can open the door, so to speak. This, however, is not the
end. The students of course must be open to such experiences.
In a country such as Pakistan, where education is mostly
used to uplift one's social and economic standing, no one
is really concerned about such experiences. People fail to
understand the purpose of education, believing it to be a
means to an end rather than a beginning. This gap can only
be bridged if we realize that it is more about being human
in a not-so-human world than ANYTHING ELSE.

Aesthetic experiences should be totally individualistic in
that they must be there to give us the pleasure of living
in an otherwise mundane existence. If such experiences
held other motives then the experience would jump into
the world of materialism...